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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Life In The Fast Lane (page 1/1) ------ performed by Eagles Life In The Too Fast Lane | Reviewer: King Ghidora | 5/4/09 The Eagles, more than any other prominent band, seemed to get it that sex, drugs, and rock and roll was a great line but it was also an attitude that took a great toll on the generation of the 60's and 70's. They did a great job of capturing the emptiness of the lives of the perpetual party crowd (which still exists and is still being hurt by this attitude). Record companies actually encouraged this sort of attitude because it gave the dead beat drug users of the world hope that they could become rich and famous without really trying and without giving up their drugs. It was a sick way of cashing in on people's empty and often shortened lifestyles. Every junkie in the world wanted what the rock stars had. Mountains of cocaine, bales of marijuana and all the girls you wanted just for playing rock. Never mind that most of those people had trouble playing the radio, they all wanted to be able to say, "see you can get ahead by being a head". The even more poignant "Hotel California" exposed the empty lives of the generation that lived the "California Dreamin'" dream. Particularly the people who moved to California in the early 60's found out that "Life In The Fast Lane" was also the fast lane to the grave for too many. Many of the early California immigrants moved out of the cities by the 70's and became the back to the earth types with their tree hugging and their organic farms had their impact on later generations and eventually on the culture as a whole. But the Eagles understood that once you adopted that lifestyle there was no turning back for most. "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave", is probably the most cut to the chase line of all of the rock era. You can die but you can't give up your lifestyle. That's what they thought anyway. In fact many did go back to a more normal life and became stock brokers and bankers. Many of those people held on to their druggie ways though and the Wall Street junkie became a cliche later on. The Eagles have captured the hopelessness and emptiness of what was supposed to be the wave of the future in this song and Hotel California. It's sad because the songs are too true for many. But there are ways out of that lifestyle for those willing to give it all up and see it for the empty self-indulgence that has damaged so many so badly. Many have to come to grips with the fact that their own promotion of that lifestyle resulted in destroyed lives for others. It's not easy to forgive yourself sometimes. That alone keeps many locked in Hotel California whether they are physically in that state or just mentally in that state of mind. Add Your New Review About The Song